Healthy Eating

At St. Oswald’s, we pride ourselves on being healthy! You can see this through the healthy snacks we have and the lessons we teach on living a healthy lifestyle.

St. Oswald’s is currently following the Healthy Schools programme through Gateshead Council. Gateshead have a proud tradition when it comes to Healthy Schools and became the 1st Local Authority in the country to achieve 100% of schools achieving National Healthy Schools Status.

The new Healthy Schools Programme will look to support schools in maintaining the criteria they achieved in gaining Healthy Schools status as well as providing more autonomy to schools by offering tailored advice in helping them identify and address their own key health priorities for their students and pupils.

The whole school enjoyed a wonderful morning at the Cooking4Life workshop, learning about nutrition and the importance of eating a healthy lunch. This term we will be introducing a reward system to encourage children to eat a healthy lunch, whether this is a school...